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Public Works adds quarterly contract-tracking report showing small variances between estimates and awards
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Summary
Secretary Bob Fuller introduced a new quarterly contract-tracking report that aggregates capital contract awards and modifications; staff reported that, on average, award amounts and modifications are within about 1–3% of engineers’ estimates, with a few project-specific outliers.
Secretary Bob Fuller presented a new quarterly contract-tracking report designed to give the commission a broader perspective on capital construction contracts and modifications across the department.
The report compiles recently approved contracts, delegated modifications and change orders and will be updated quarterly. Fuller said the snapshot shows that average differences between procurement cost estimates, award amounts and subsequent modifications are generally small—around 1% on modifications and approximately 3% when comparing award-plus-modifications to the original engineer's estimates—although staff flagged outliers and provided explanations during the meeting (for example, a fuel-tank replacement that came in about 35% above estimate due to market demand and a streetscape project with higher traffic control costs).
Fuller said final closeout costs will be added to the report as contracts reach closeout and that staff will continue to refine the report layout (including resolving an outdated legend). Commissioners praised the report as a useful oversight tool for tracking the department’s capital portfolio.
Why it matters: the report is intended to improve transparency about capital project procurement and modifications and to identify trends and outliers across many contracts.
